[Hardy] CVE-2010-4247: XEN: Add yield points to blktap and blkback

[Stefan Bader]

On 07.06.2011 18:19, Tim Gardner wrote:
> On 06/07/2011 08:52 AM, Stefan Bader wrote:
>> On 01.06.2011 16:06, Stefan Bader wrote:
>>> As far as I can see this only affects Hardy as that is the only
>>> place that creates a dom0 kernel. The code itself seems to be
>>> present in the lucid-ec2 tree, but as we do not support dom0 and
>>> those are drivers for that. So I set the Lucid-ec2 status to
>>> not-affected, but I am thinking of adding the changes anyway, just
>>> in case...
>>>
>>> -Stefan
> <snip>
>>
>> Pushing this one as I did not see any replies, yet.
>>
>> -Stefan
>>
> 
> It didn't get reviewed because I couldn't figure out what you wanted. As far as
> I can tell you're _thinking_ of adding changes to drivers that are not in fact
> even used, nor will they _ever_ be used since we won't have a Lucid DOM0 host
> unless we provide one via an LTS backported kernel. In which case the point is
> moot.
> 
> rtg

Ok, to clarify, for Hardy we need it. For Lucid I was thinking of pulling them
in just in case but found out that actually they are there, so nothing to do there.

Stefan